Re: Switch Repository to Git

2008/6/30 David 'Bombe' Roden <[email protected]>:
> Hey folks,
>
> I have been looking at and working with Git for the last four or five weeks
> and I must say that I'm very impressed by it. It's easy to use, it's
> extremely powerful, it enables developers to perform the most tedious tasks
> in a very short time and in general simply wipes the floor with
> subversion. :)
>
> It is possible to import subversion repositories into Git, keeping the
> complete history and even branches, and it's even possible to commit changes
> made in a local repository back to subversion; I just tested that tonight
> when I fixed nextgens' backport of toad's BucketChainBucket—it even made
> finding the bug simple.
>
> Git repositories can be served by a special git-daemon or by a normal,
> run-off-the-mill HTTP server without any special modules. No DAV, no CGI, no
> nothing, just plain HTTP.
>
> I'd suggest that we move to Git rather sooner than later; most of the trouble
> we had with bug #2440 (which resulted from the faulty backport) would never
> have occured in the first place with Git. (Sure, of course you can make
> changes in the wrong branch but Git will happily apply a commit from one
> branch to another so the backport could have been done in two minutes.)
>
> Anybody in favor? Anybody opposed?
>

I have been using git-svn since the first day I commit to the freenet
repository and love it.
Branching and merging is extremely easy.

The last time I hear a complain is about IDE-support from nextgen...

There are plugins for both netbeans and eclipse, neither of them is complete.
   http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/NetBeansPlugin
   http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/EclipsePlugin

>
>        David
>
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